Norway : a brief presentation of historical, cultural, political, economic, industrial, and social conditions

NORWAY
A BRIEF PRESENTATION OF HISTORICAL,
CULTURAL, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, INDUSTRIAL,
AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS

BY
JACOB VIDNES
Chief of the Press Bureau of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs

TRANSLATED BY
WALTER GUY

OSLO 1935

PRINTED IN NORWAY
MORTEN JOHANSENS BOKTRYKKERI
OSLO

Preface to the electronic edition

Jacob Vidnes wrote this description of Norway in 1934, and the English translation was published in 1935. In January 2013, the book was digitized by Norway’s National library, from where the scanned images in November 2025 were copied to Project Runeberg. The OCR text was produced with Tesseract 5.3 (eng).

This volume was scanned by the Norwegian National Library, from where the scanned images were copied to Project Runeberg. We very much appreciate that they have made this possible and want to encourage other digital library projects to follow their example. Read more about Project Runeberg's image sources.

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Table of Contents

Title and contents - frontespiece 1, frontespiece 2, frontespiece 3, title page, verso of title leaf, 6, 222
The Royal Family - iv
The Cabinet - v
Norway and Norwegian Possessions in the Middle Aages, and Norway after 1814 - vii, map left, map right
Preface - 5
History - 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Position, Area, and Natural Conditions - 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Population - 21, 22, 23
The Constitution - 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Finances - 31, 32, 33, 34
National Defence - 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42
Church and School - 43, 44, 45, 46
Political Parties - 47, 48, 49, 50, 51
The Press - 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57
Literature - 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63
Painting and Sculpture - 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69
The Theatre - 70, 71, 72
Music - 73, 74, 75
Norwegian Shipping - 76, map left, map right, 77, 78, 79
    Norwegian Steamship Lines - map left, map right
Manufactures - 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106
    Aluminium - 82, 83, 84, 85
    Engineering (Iron and Steel Industry) - 85, 86, 87, 88, 89
    Zinc - 90
    Hydro-Electric Power - 91, 92, 93
    Mining - 94, 95, 96
    Nitrogen - 96, 97
    Paper - 97, 98, 99, 100
    Quarrying - 100, 101
    Wood Pulp - 102, 103
    Tinned Fish - 103, 104, 105, 106
Norwegian Trade - 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
    Trade between Norway and The United States - 109, 110
    Trade between Norway and Great Britain and British Dominions - 110, 111, 112, 113, 114
Banking - 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122
The State Grain Monopoly - 123, 124, 125
The Sale of Beer, Wine and Spirits - 126, 127, 128, 129, 130
Co-operation - 131, 132
Agriculture - 133, 134, 135, 136
Silver-Fox Farming - 137, 138
Fisheries - 139, 140, 141, 142, plate, diagram
    Norway’s principal food fishes - plate, diagram
Klipfish Production - 143, 144, 145, 146
Cod Liver Oil - 147, 148, 149
Whaling - 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155
Norwegian Employers’ Association - 156, 157
The Labour Movement - 158, 159, 160, 161, 162
The Women’s Rights Movement - 163, 164
Social Legislation - 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175
Travel - 176, 177, 178, 179
Home Industries and Crafts - 181, 182
A Cruise to the Midnight Sun - 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195
Discoveries and Scientific Expeditions - 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202
Norwegians Abroad - 203, 204, 205
The Norwegian Flag - 206, plate
Scientific Societies and Associations - 207, 208, 209
The Norwegian Nobel Institute - 210, 211, 212
Royal Orders of Chivalry - 213, 214, plate
    Insignia of the Royal Order of St. Olav - plate
Medals - 215, 216
Norwegian Legations and Consulates Abroad - 217, 218, 219
Heads of Legations in Oslo - 220
Norwegian Ministries since 1905 - 221
Advertisements - 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256
Area and Population of each County - 257

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